Nigeria:Making Sense of a Young Doctor's Death
[The Aspen Institute] Ahmed Victor Idowu was a young medical doctor with a passion to reform health care in Nigeria. A recent graduate of the University of Nigeria, in January 2018 he was at the start of his in-hospital clinical training when he examined a seven-month old baby with an abnormally high fever. He was the only doctor on duty. It was his last duty. The baby had Lassa fever. Less than a month lat er, Dr. Idowu died of the Ebola-like virus that in its most severe form causes multi-organ failure and un
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